Monday, August 13, 2018

August 9, 2018 (https://twitter.com/margotwallstrom) Sweden
is calling on Russia to release a Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. Margot
Wallström, Swedish Foreign Minister, wrote on August 9, 2018 on Twitter:” Deeply
concerning reports on Oleg Sentsov’s deteriorating health condition. His
detention violates international law and is based on a legal process which did
not meet elementary standards of justice. We call on Russia to release him
& other illegally detained Ukrainian citizens.”

Ukrainian filmmaker and
writer Oleg Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike since 14 May 2018, is
reportedly in a critical condition. According to his lawyer, who visited him in
prison on 7 August 2018, Oleg Sentsov has a low haemoglobin level, resulting in
anaemia and a slow heartbeat, and has lost 30 kilogrammes. He is refusing to be
transferred to a civilian hospital as he is too weak to stand and says that
medical staff there have previously been hostile towards him.

Sunday, August 12, 2018

August 12, 2018 (The Defence Blogg) Head of the Press Center of Ukraine’s
Air Force, Roman Yurchilo has confirmed the participation U.S. troops in the upcoming
Clear Sky 2018 multinational military exercise in Ukraine. Ukraine this year will hold the
largest multinational aviation exercise since its independence. The Clear Sky
2018 exercise scheduled to be held in mid-October for two weeks. The countries
participating this year will include Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Denmark, the UK,
France, Estonia and the United States.

U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagles at Yokota
Air Base

U.S. Air Forces officials did not
comment on participating in the exercise, although reports that almost 10
aircraft of different types will take part in Clear Sky 2018 multinational
military exercise in Ukraine. The US involvement will include F-15 Eagle
tactical fighter aircraft, C-130 military transport aircraft,
KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft and even MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial
vehicles.

The Clear Sky 2018 multinational
military exercise focuses on stability operations and helps promote
interoperability among the partner militaries of Ukraine and the United States
as well as its NATO allies. From the Ukrainian side, the exercises will be attended
by about 20 combat aircraft of various types, helicopters, and unmanned aerial
vehicles. Together with Ukrainian and American pilots, tasks in the sky will be
performed by their Polish and Romanian colleagues on F-16C aircraft.

According to the idea of the
organizers, the Clean Sky-2018 international exercise will contribute to
security in Eastern Europe and will allow to raise the level of training of the
Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to fulfill tactical tasks in the
allies environment, to achieve a fundamentally new and qualitative level of
compatibility with the air forces of the US Armed Forces and other NATO member
countries during joint air operations to ensure protection of sovereignty. The
exercise will be conducted amid heightened tensions with Moscow, which views
any NATO military activities along its border negatively.

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

General information about
railway transport (cited from the site of the
Ministry of the Infrastructure of Ukraine): "......Railway transport of
Ukraine is the leading branch in the road transport of the country, provides
82% of freight and about 50% of passenger transportations carried out by all
types of transport. In terms of cargo traffic, Ukraine's railway is the fourth
on the Eurasian continent after China, Russia and India railways...."

But what we have in reality?The video below shows the way things now stand with the lever of
service that Ukrainain railroads give to ordinary people. On one hand you feel
the pain, but on other hand you feel that the resourcefulness of our people is
unlimited!